Solid Concepts, a firearm manufacturer in Texas, says that they have created the first metal handgun out of a 3D printer. It has apparently been shot for than 50 times, with a few bulls-eyes from over 30 yards. While this may frighten some people, Alyssa Parkinson, a spokeswoman for the company made clear that it was not a desktop printer. Basic 3D printers go for about $2000 while the one they used was a high-end specialized printer that would be out of many people's price ranges. It cost more than Parkinson's college tuition, even at a private university.
What do you guys think? Is this technology going too far? Do you think this could be helpful?
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I think its cool that technology has come to that. I do think it could be dangerous. Anyone that can afford this could use it dangerously.
This is crazy! Yes, this technology is going very far. I mean it might be helpful but it's really stupid though...
I think that having a 3D printer would be nice, but it would be a little weird to have one. I think that technology is going too far, because I can't think of a way that you can use this. Sure, it will make things easier to get, but I don't know why it could be useful.
I actually think this is really cool! I mean, if they can make a gun from a 3D printer, they could surely make other things could they not? So maybe it could be a (perhaps faster?) way of manufacturing goods that consumers could use, if they were to perfect the art of 3D printing.
If they do perfect 3D printing then they could make things that are even bigger.
I went to a 3D printer exhibition several months ago,that's...awesome...
This is pretty cool. Of course there is the worry that somebody could buy one of these, make a lot of guns, and sell them to bad people. But I don't think that citizens will be allowed to acquire a 3D printer as high end as that. I think this could lead to a lot of innovations in production and industrialization.
I completely agree. This high-end of a printer would have to be owned only by companies that need to make products faster and more efficiently.
I don't think they should sell these type of printers to people, if they just sell them to big businesses that manufacture guns then it would be fine. I think it's neat how technology can do things like this, but it might be going a little far.
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